Thanks for sharing Ray. Many miles of smiles...who gets the 2000 BMW? My brother and sister in law placed deposits in March 2016 too. He ordered all the options and his delivery was delayed also. Once due to a defect. They couldn't find the gas tank. He finally took delivery about a month and a half...

Sorry to hear you are having trouble. Depending on how much you want to recover the data is how far you want to go with moving platters. Attempting to move platters unless you have an idea of what you are doing could leave the data that still could be on the platters useless. If the data is that imp...

Beautiful beast! Thanks for sharing your hard work. In April 1999 I picked up a used 770Z from a notebook fanatic on fleabay. It was as new as they said that they bought it for testing. It was a model 9549-8AU and after the S/N on the bottom label it said 02-99 which is the date of manufacturer. Thi...

If you have another Ultrabay adapter I suggest to try it to see if that one has the same problem. Since this setup is working so well for another suggestion would be to find another like T430 and move all your memory and drives over. There are probably some T430's available on your favorite online a...

A drive Clone is a mirrored copy of the hard drive. A backup image is one big file of your drive stored. Since windows won't allow booting the clone from an external USB drive make a backup image stored on the external USB drive. Should you need to restore that backup to your existing SSD or another...

What I can say is that I have seem many X1 Carbon 2nd gen with the same issue. I haven't known what happened just before the issue. What I do know is that the original mother board part was replaced by Lenovo going back a year and a half or so and I have seen zero issues with these new part number m...